News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Cutting Google out of your life (2019). Parent comment

Re:Cutting Google out of your life (2019) by cycloptic on Sunday January 05, 2020 @04:52PM (#21964402)
No, I've never noticed that. I don't try to access google or youtube directly through Tor. I just use those programs.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cutting Google out of your life (2019) by lucb1e on Sunday January 05, 2020 @06:37PM (#21965076)
Wait, you can get around IP bans (Google certainly has a CAPTCHA on anyone trying to access Search from a Tor exit node IP address) by using a different client? Like, the check is client-side? That seems odd.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cutting Google out of your life (2019) by cycloptic on Sunday January 05, 2020 @08:18PM (#21965627)
Please re-read my original post, it was about youtube, not search. But I don't think you can get around the Tor captcha on search, so at this time I would say avoid google search entirely if you care about not being tracked.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cutting Google out of your life (2019) by Nextgrid on Sunday January 05, 2020 @08:11PM (#21965602)
Presumably the captchas are only on the YouTube UI itself and not on the API endpoints that provide the data.
[ Parent | on HN ]